This article reports on efforts to gain greater insight into the operation of LIS e-learning communities, by applying automated text-mining techniques to text-based communication to identify, describe and evaluate underlying ...

Objective: The research investigated the relationship between biomedical literature and blogosphere discussions about diabetes in order to explore the role of Web 2.0 technologies in disseminating health information. Are ...

Background: Social network analysis provides a perspective and method for inquiring into the structures that comprise online groups and communities. Traces from interaction via social media provide the opportunity for ...

The proliferation of social media brings new opportunities to discover the ways in which we receive, process, and disseminate information -- even information that seems confined to our imaginations. Mental imagery -- those ...

The paper examines the influence of geographic distance, national boundaries, language, and frequency of air travel on the formation of social ties on Twitter, a popular micro-blogging website. Based on a large sample of ...

Social media has become mainstream in recent years, and its adoption has skyrocketed. Following this trend among the general public, scholars are also increasingly adopting these tools for their professional work. The ...